Spring into change

We have been sharing our thoughts together now for 5 and a half months.  Always open to ideas, providing each other with shoulders and ears for the tougher days of being a mother, wife, daughter, partner, exchanging recipes and top tips on home crafts for the family.  It is with this spirit that we are happy to introduce How-To Sunday.

So on a bright, warm and sunny Denver afternoon I find myself sitting here inviting you to read, comment or may be even be a guest on this segment. Our site isn’t ‘our’ site at all.  It’s everyone’s.  It is about sharing our ‘expertise’ – whatever it may be.  Have you ever wanted to know how to shape your eyebrows properly?  Or may be know how to strip back that patio chair and prepare it for the long summer months of lounging outside with glass of cold chardonnay in your hand.  Or indeed you want to know how to choose the appropriate wine to serve with that dinner party you have been planning all week.  Trim your fringe (bangs) or your children’s without them resorting to attending school wearing a baseball cap until the ‘mistake’ has grown out!  What about preparing for the first long distance road trip/flight that your family has taken??

I think you are getting the idea!

So this new and exciting Sunday slot is opening it’s doors to all and everyone.  We want to hear from you.  What have you always wanted to know how to do? Are you an ‘expert’ in your field – and I don’t just mean someone with degrees as long as your arm and qualifications coming out of the proverbial….we all had careers before becoming mummy’s (and some of us still juggle that crazy world). I just know that there are some great women (and men) out there who are holding great resources…..Tina, be warned we will be tapping into your skills as a Play therapist!  Helen – my mother in law, as an ex-kindergarten teacher – and one who set up her own in the early days MAKING all the toys for creative play – we will be tapping into your skills too!  Destri your on the list too girl!  As for me, well, in my dizzy days before motherhood I worked as an aromatherapist so we might even look at how to make your own natural home fragrance – if your interested that is!

If we don’t have a resident ‘expert’ on hand we will research til our fingers are blue or green as is the case for our first how-to next week.  All about spring planting!  I love gardening. I will quite happily while away the hours in a garden puttering here and there – but – and it’s a big but, I have no experience here in the US of A!  Certainly not with all the different climates that this huge country has.. at home, in the UK the snowdrops are out, the purples and yellows of crocus are providing the knowledge that the darker days of winter are almost done, and the daffodils are poking up and waving their yellow heads in the chilly spring breeze.  Here, warm and sunny  -yes, but a mile above sea level and our daffs are still thinking about sticking their heads into the spring air.  Not to be put off though, my dear grandfather who was an avid gardener, always said you have to garden a season ahead – so to planting those seeds that in summer will provide you with colour in your garden, and deliver the fruits of your labour.  May be even little gardeners may like to get involved. Sunflowers are always a good way to start………

So with a few ideas up our sleeves we can get going. But be warned, this is a segment  for you and by you. And with that get typing away, I just can’t wait to hear from you all.

Grab your gardening gloves, potting compost, trowel and seed trays, next week we will talk you through, how to plant your first seeds for summer.

Can’t wait to see you – be there or be square!

Smiles (and sunny ones at that!)